Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:13:14 +0100 From: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> To: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Cc: Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: O_XATTR support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CALXu0UeDprsYibGoUQ-k_R-3_X6WoVkC_E9_9BkBwBo6aB-Zbg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <528FB6BA.7040606@FreeBSD.org> References: <528FB6BA.7040606@FreeBSD.org>
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On 22 November 2013 20:55, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > Well ... > > According to: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS > > We do support Extended Attributes on ZFS but they differ from the ones in > Solaris (and Linux). Well, we need the one specified in the NFSv4 standard. The Linux extended attributes are pretty much useless because they are size restricted (typical attribute size here is in the GB range, and for example NIH and CERN have even much bigger sizes), can't be accessed like normal files and are incompatible to Window's Alternate Streams. Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> Institute Pasteur
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